Building Mercurial 1.3 on RHEL 4

[Stephen Rasku]

I am trying to build Hg 1.3 from the stable branch on my Red Hat EL4
system.  I have installed Python 2.4 using the following yum
repository:

    baseurl=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/rpms/fedora-3/

When I try and "make all", I get a bunch of activity which ends with:

    error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

The entire /usr/lib/python2.4/config directory doesn't exist.  I am
not a Python expert so I don't know if it should or not.  What should
I do next?

...Stephen